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Firefox --3.5-- Extensions: Your favorite or most useful
Lashiec:
No I already use FARR. What I mean is the Launchy Firefox extension. You right click in the browser and it opens another browser or another app with the selection. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work with image viewers like Irfanview or XnView. It lists them as enabled, but when you right click on a link to an image you get everything else but an image viewer. It's been that way for awhile now so I don't think the author is interested in fixing it.
-MilesAhead (August 21, 2009, 04:08 PM)
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Weird, XnView is always shown for pictures here.
MilesAhead:
No I already use FARR. What I mean is the Launchy Firefox extension. You right click in the browser and it opens another browser or another app with the selection. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work with image viewers like Irfanview or XnView. It lists them as enabled, but when you right click on a link to an image you get everything else but an image viewer. It's been that way for awhile now so I don't think the author is interested in fixing it.
-MilesAhead (August 21, 2009, 04:08 PM)
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Weird, XnView is always shown for pictures here.
-Lashiec (August 23, 2009, 11:00 AM)
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If the browser is already showing the picture, and I right click the picture, Launchy shows "open in Irfanview" but if I right click on the link, I don't get any graphics viewers in the list. Just video players. If it knows enough to list the video players it should know enough to list the graphics viewers/editors. But it doesn't. It's just way quirky. I don't know how many times I've added an app, then tried to configure it even using the xml doodad. It's never worked for me yet. The app has to be already installed when I install Launchy, then if it auto configs it, it might work.
UTLonghorns:
Searchbastard is the most powerful Firefox Search extension I have ever used. I do not know how I got by without it before. Here is a brief description pulled from the Mozilla addons site:
"Quickly access your search engines and powerful "Searchbastard engines", which provides search options and can clean up the search results. Group engines, and perform multisearch. The "selection search" feature allows you to quickly look up words on a page, by selecting the text and typing the engine alias. The "adressfield search" extends the firefox feature, so you can also search the groups and searchbastard engines by typing the alias followed by the searchterm in the address field. The searchbar allows you to quickly perform a search, and quickly repeat that search using another engine. Everything is extremely customizable: You can arrange the frames in a multisearch, you can assign actions to all toolbar events, etc. The plugin is lightweight, and features are dynamically loaded when needed.
I use it in conjunction with Add to Search Bar or create a search plugin with one of the following sites:
Ready2Search Search Plugin Maker (Can Use Custom Favicons for Search Plugin)
http://ready.to/search/en/
or
SearchPlugins.net Search Plugin Maker
http://www.searchplugins.net/generate.aspx
I also use a bookmarklet from https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/forms.html to convert Search fields from post to get method when needed.
The ability to search multiple engines at one time, use different engines by simply clicking an icon, and create custom search groups make this a must have extension for me!!
Mozilla Addons Page
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8030
Homepage
http://searchbastard.rosell.dk/wiki/Main_Page
HookEm!!
mwang:
Do any of you know how to make Firefox stop assuming I'm too lazy to type the domain and immediately search using my default search engine?
-Hirudin (August 16, 2009, 12:39 AM)
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If you haven't tried it yet, there's a new addon does this: Advanced Address Bar.
sri:
Thank you. SearchBastard is awesome!
Searchbastard is the most powerful Firefox Search extension I have ever used. I do not know how I got by without it before. Here is a brief description pulled from the Mozilla addons site:
"Quickly access your search engines and powerful "Searchbastard engines", which provides search options and can clean up the search results. Group engines, and perform multisearch. The "selection search" feature allows you to quickly look up words on a page, by selecting the text and typing the engine alias. The "adressfield search" extends the firefox feature, so you can also search the groups and searchbastard engines by typing the alias followed by the searchterm in the address field. The searchbar allows you to quickly perform a search, and quickly repeat that search using another engine. Everything is extremely customizable: You can arrange the frames in a multisearch, you can assign actions to all toolbar events, etc. The plugin is lightweight, and features are dynamically loaded when needed.
I use it in conjunction with Add to Search Bar or create a search plugin with one of the following sites:
Ready2Search Search Plugin Maker (Can Use Custom Favicons for Search Plugin)
http://ready.to/search/en/
or
SearchPlugins.net Search Plugin Maker
http://www.searchplugins.net/generate.aspx
I also use a bookmarklet from https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/forms.html to convert Search fields from post to get method when needed.
The ability to search multiple engines at one time, use different engines by simply clicking an icon, and create custom search groups make this a must have extension for me!!
Mozilla Addons Page
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8030
Homepage
http://searchbastard.rosell.dk/wiki/Main_Page
HookEm!!
-UTLonghorns (August 27, 2009, 01:20 AM)
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